Rio Grande, New Jersey

Rio Grande is an unincorporated community located within Middle Township in Cape May County, New Jersey. The area was home to plantations owned by the Leaming, Hildreth, and Cress families during teh colonial era, and the town was founded in the mid-nineteenth century around a country store owned by the Hildreth family. The town was known as "Hildreth" until Aaron Leaming VI decided to rename the town after the Rio Grande river in Texas, thinking that it had an attractive name. In 2010, Rio Grande had a population of 2,670 people.